What Is Wrong With This World?!?

I was talking on the phone with my sister yesterday when she told me something very disturbing. Due to the fact that I don't watch the news because it depresses me, I was unaware of what was happening in the USA. Apparently (from what I was told), a lady in the US had gotten into an accident about 10 years ago and was basicaly a vegetable, except that she showed some form of acknowledgement when her family came to visit her through facial expressions (so I guess she wasn't in a complete vegetative state). Anyways this lady was married and had children but has been in this state for approximately 10 years. I guess her husband got tired of having her around and so he asked to have her life terminated. Now he had moved on with his life, he had a new relationship with another woman and even had children with her. Of course he wanted his injured wife out of the picture! The womens family was fighting to keep her alive. She showed signs of mental activity by facial expressions and she wasn't on any resperatory system, the only thing she was on was a feeding tube, THAT IS ALL! Her family faught her husband all the way to Supreme Court where his wishes were granted. The great Supreme Court ordered for her feeding tube to be removed and she was sentenced to death through starvation. As if she hadn't suffered enough for the last ten years now she was left to starve to death. What I don't understand is how the court could grant her husband rights over the poor woman when he had started a new life after her accident. He wasn't fighting for her well being, he was fighting for his own, and the Supreme Court didn't see that. She layed in her bed starving for 14 days!! Can you imagine? What did she ever do wrong to deserve such a death. Murderers get better treatment. WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? What bugs me even more is that in this is modern day we should know better and be more civilized than to be so inhumane. I guess we haven't come that far from our barbaric ways.

P.S. One piece of advice: If you have a choice to give power of attorney to someone in case of emergencies (such as above), I beseech you to give the power to someone of your bloodline. No one will love you or want the outmost best for you other than your intimate family. As seen above a husband or even a friend can move on with their lives but your family (the blood that runs through your veins) will love you forever.

TRUST

In life we build relationships with a significant other but do we really trust them? I personally feel that trust is an issue for me. Being that I have been in a relationship where I placed my trust blindly only to have that person prove to me that my trust was misplaced. After that experience I have found it difficult to trust again. What is trust anyways? In my opinion it is just a saved argument. For example: if my boyfriend were to tell me that he's going to a night club and then spending the night over at his friends and I were to say that I trust him and he goes, does my saying that I trust him going to stop him from doing something. No matter how much you trust someone it will not change what they do. For all I know, I could consent to his night out, placing my trust in him, and really he could be out with a girl spending the night with her. By saying that I trust him all I am doing is avoiding asking questions, not making him call me and ultimately avoiding the whole "you don't trust me" fight. By asking questions I would appear insecure and not trusting, but I feel as a girlfriend it is my right to ask questions. There is a limit to how far trust goes. I'm not saying that I don't trust at all, but I know the difference between trust and being naive.
Right now some of you might be saying "what an aweful girlfriend" or "I would hate to have her as a girlfriend", and you are entitled to your opinion, but please hear me out before you pass judgement on me. When I am in a relationship I give my all to that person but I feel that it is my duty to protect myself emotionally. My trust issues don't go as far as I don't trust at all, but there is a limit to it. I realize that we are all human and that we all make mistakes and I am not going to sit here believing that my boyfriend is an angel and that he is not capable of doing wrong, NO ONE is. My boyfreind tells me that he trusts that I would never do wrong to him, and he is right because I wouldn't, but I tell him that he should never trust someone so blindly because I am capable of screwing up as well. Hey, I am only looking out for myself, and you should too. No one will ever care about your well being as much as you do. Trust, by all means please trust, but don't trust blindly.